Your plan is to be worth nothing so if you get sued you only lose the property.

I need a plan for the refinance, and an emergency funds. 

I’m planning to initiate an STR in this locality and would love to join the community.

Or are you more concerned about cashflow after retirement and have no plans to leave your W2?

I was planning on starting smaller and working my way up to multi-family.

Are you planning on holding those long term? 

Complete your BP profile - Be as detailed and specific as possible when mentioning your future plans, current operation/experience level, ongoing projects, etc.

I'd start with plans not a general contractor or HIC contractor.

Sounds like a tax planning opportunity for you and your tax pro.

I plan to move back to India soon and was wondering if at all it would be possible to remotely manage my properties from India (12 hour time difference makes real time communication a lot harder).